Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Wednesday (Nov 19)Film - Hoodlum on Star Movies at 8.30pm. Bumby Johnson (Laurence Fishburne) is released from Sing Sing prison and returns to Harlem where he becomes the bodyguard for Queen St Clair (Cicely Tyson), the head of the Harlem numbers racket. Her business makes big money, attracting the interest of "Dutch" Schultz (Tim Roth) who, under the eyes of Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia), decides to move in on her territory.
How could something that felt so right possibly go so wrong? For many of us, the 17 years since the last weekly instalment from Texas's answer to the Borgias has been but a despairingly aimless walk through the glamour - and Stetson-free topography of life.
